Midnight Blues

thank you greenfroggy :) i’m glad you like ‘midnight’ :)

lol, thanx kimbaross, much appreciated :)

I only have an ‘on’ switch unfortunately..lol ....
costs me a fortune in batteries :)

thank you very much Lam, pleased you like it!

thank you very much missmilly, i’m so glad you like her, and thanx for favouriting her also…..this one goes deep :)

thank you Serge, oh you poor thing…....get the guitar out and sing those blues away!!

thanks blossom,oh if one could only see the underpainting, it has been overpainted a lot to achieve the effect…the original painting was quite different….i’m so glad you like it! she original had long flowing streaked hair that was blowin’ in the wind :)

thank you Steven, much appreciated comments :)

aw, thanks so much pinkyjain, greatly appreciated comments :)

oh, thanks Robin…I love your work :)))

thank you artsthrufotos!

thanks Deidre :)

i got that shade of blue with a pastel chalk i was using and it may have come up even stronger and more enhanced on the computer screen…it’s like an electric blue and a purple put together….and it just sings. I think with the dark background it brings the colour out further. the checkered areas are actually fabric that has been glued on…..it’s like a skirt/blanket lying over her legs (flares) I’m so glad you like it fa :) it’s a special one to me

oh thanks so much oksancia :)

aha, nice…i like what you said Liesl, thank you very much…...there is a lot of soul in it , so whatever you read into it will help me formulate what it all means in my own mind…i think there is a connection there, but i didn’t realise until you said it, and also when i was photographing her today i started to see this as well….......the eye of the photographer sees something a little different to the eye of the painter…..in my case anyways… lol :) thzx

oh, that’s a big compliment there, thanks Liesl :)

aha, wonderfully insightful…..you are certainly switched on there Thomas, thanks for comments…yes, those artists you’ve mentioned are indeed very strong influences, i was born mid sixties and the large eyes and heads are a strong part of the tapestry of my dreamscapes

Hi Jan, this is great, as this one is very special personally to me, so it’s a thrill that you noticed and liked it so well

...oh yeah, the hyena? and his birds, females, self portraits, wendy portraits, everything, everything of his….i love his beach ones and lavender bay ones…and seagullls and the birds nests he stuck on, even right down to the stuffed cats head he stuck on one of ‘em…i am yet to get to his studio in Sydney…we went there once but it was closed that day, gosh dangit! I feel a kindredness with him and wish i had known his tortured soul in some small way :)

ps forgot to say, thank you, thank you for that lovely comment about my work Paul :)

aha! i was hoping you’d comment on this one…..i have 2 agree wija (thanks mate for noticing) it is some of my best work yet….blood, sweat, tears, joy…..everything went into it, and i’m happy with what came out….ecstatic actually….don’t know what i’ll do if i have to sell her someday :)

oh wowo…and there i was just whinging and whining about how i never get featuredd!!!! hahahah thanx fa!!! xoxoxo

hehe, eheh!! yes, yes, I must!! lol xoxo

fa, you must have a look, more people have been signing your Birthday Card…!! quick, go see!! :D lol

thank you so very much Allison, I am very glad you like her!

thanks Steve, it’s very kind of you :D

Hello there pinky, i was just thinking about you, and wondering whether you still were buried in the books??? Have surely missed you!!! It’s Frozenfa’s birthday today, and we have a birthday card that everyone is signing, I’m not sure if you already have done so, but if not , you can here

thank you so much blamo! :D

yahoo!! thanx Christelle! :D

thank you very much Suryadi, and welcome to red bubble !! :D

aw, thanx so much ginny :D

yay!! thanx very much Liesl…big thrill! :D

thank you so much margie :D

thank you so much yanmos :D

thank you very much Peace !

thanx mate, appreciate it :D

thanx mate, I appreciate it :D

thank you Jan, it’s such a nice thing to happen hey!

thank you very much tbo, so glad you can see the BW influence here :D

thank you so much Sal!!

thank you so much Cate!!! :D

thank you very much erin !!

thank you very much blamo for the lovely welcome to MIA
and good luck with your new venture as group host!!!

hey tk!! :D
thank you so much!!
really glad you like Midnight Blues and Boats n Birds by Gregory and the Hawk….simple but so delightful to listen to

thx so much Agnes!

lol, oo i didn’t realise how sneaky i was :) you found them all… You always manage to uplift me with the power of your words….very powerful things are they!... i think she painted herself… so she was wanting to engage with her audience…..and she seems to have a mind of her own lol… thank you so much for noticing everything :) You could be a private eye you know!!! (Sherlock Holmes)!

thank you so very much Daniel, I really enjoyed the process of painting this…it changed immensely over the time…but in the end, it decided how it should look… it seemed i was but an onlooker :)